{"product_id":"the-global-chancellor","title":"The Global Chancellor","description":"\u003cp\u003eHelmut Schmidt is the neglected chancellor of modern German history, overshadowed by 'the greats' - Bismarck, Adenauer, Brandt and Kohl. This volume retrieves Schmidt's true significance as a pivotal figure who helped reshape the global order during the crisis-ridden 1970s. This major reinterpretation, based on detailed research in Schmidt's private papers and numerous archives in Europe and America, reveals him as a leader equally skilled in economics and security,\n\u003cbr\u003eand adept at personal diplomacy,  who dared to act as a 'double interpreter' between the superpowers during the nadir of the Cold War.Schmidt was no mere 'crisis-manager':  in\n\u003cbr\u003efact he brought to the chancellorship a depth of reflection, evident in two decades of writings and speeches that justifies considering him an intellectual statesman on a par with Henry Kissinger. His achievements were prodigious. Hailed as the 'world economist', Schmidt helped create the G7 forum for global economic governance and the European Monetary System at a time when capitalism seemed on the rocks. And as the 'strategist of balance', he designed NATO's 'dual-track' response to the\n\u003cbr\u003ecrisis caused by the massive Soviet arms buildup of Euro-missiles. This decision, Kristina Spohr argues, played a crucial part in holding together the Western alliance and paved the way to defusing the Cold\n\u003cbr\u003eWar in Europe.Schmidt brought his country to the top table of world politics - what he unashamedly called Weltpolitik - as an equal of the wartime victor powers. It was through his Chancellorship that West Germany came of age on the global stage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46060477317358,"sku":"9780198747796","price":118.69,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780198747796.jpg?v=1736512556","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/the-global-chancellor","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}